Sunday, 10 April 2016

I know I could have important all my content from here to wordpress, but to be honest it sounded to tedious for my liking. I'm still going to transfer my favourite posts from here to my new blog, but otherwise I'm just picking up where I left off here.

I'd love for you to swing by, and thank you so much for following me on here!

Monday, 22 February 2016

I've
always been at least a casual fan of Panic! At the Disco. I actually
still remember the time I Write Sins Not Tragedies was
released, and man – it's still such a tune. The reason why I
describe myself as a "casual fan" is simply because I was
never invested enough to be devastated when Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and
Spencer Smith consecutively left the band. Brendon Urie is doing more
than just fine on his own, and he very impressively illustrates that
in Panic! At the Disco's newest release called Death of a
Bachelor.

To
be quite honest, I had only just caught up on the previous release – Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die – from 2014 (which
is also a great record), when I realised that the next one was
already out. Death of a Bachelor is mostly fast-paced
with three slower songs (Death of a Bachelor, House of Memories and Impossible Year) thrown into the mix. It clocks in about 37
minutes, and it's addictive. I've caught myself listening to the
whole album multiple times a day; I love to listen to it on my way to
work, because the first song alone – Victorious – has me
levelling up. Perfect song to power walk while lip syncing to it on
the street (and have people look at you like you're a lunatic, too)!
Same goes for Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time and especially
Emperor's New Clothes: What a tune. Great music video, too!

Brendon
Urie's range is quite impressive – I understand little to nothing
about the technical bits of music and singing, but I love how he can
belt out the high nothes and do the low Sinatra-eque (listen: Death
of a Bachelor) bits as well. Vocally, I think it's the best Panic!
Record yet – maybe together with Vices and Virtues from 2011.

When
I first described the record to a friend, I think I said "It's
so good, it makes you want to destroy things – but in a good way!",
and that's still pretty much my opinion. Since it's so fast-paced
with a great beat and lyrics, it's the perfect album for hitting up
the gym (oh wow, another sentence I never thought I'd type a few
years ago!). I'd actually go as far as to say that even though it was
released in January, this will probably be one of my Top 3 albums of
2016 – I think that's quite the claim myself!

Favourite
tracks? Pretty much all of them, but if I HAD to narrow it down to 5
...

Monday, 15 February 2016

For ages it was super
hard for me to get into nude lipstick. A few years ago I always
thought that nude lips equal "boring" or looking like a
drowned corpse. (We say that in German, looking like a
"Wasserleiche", I think it's not an actual saying in
English. It's pretty macabre thinking about it, but you get the
mental image ...) Fast forward a few years, and I have a small but
growing collection of what I like to call "wearable" nudes
that I actually wear quite a lot - so I thought why not write a
roundup post of my favourites!

Sephora Cream Lip Stain
in 13 Marvelous Mauve – About a year ago, I bought two bright shades of the Sephora Cream Lip Stains during a trip to Barcelona,
and I always knew that next time I had the chance of visiting a
Sephora, I'd have to buy the mauve shade. In November I visited
Prague with my girls, so that's when I got this beauty. In short:
Gorgeous mauve shade, super matte, extremely long-wearing, feels nice
on the lips. Big thumbs up for this one!

MAC Twig – I just
posted a review of this a few weeks ago when I first bought this. I
still absolutely love it, right now it's my favourite "every day
at the office" kind of lipstick that I just slap on in the
morning when I don't want to think about it. It looks good paired
with anything, so it's kind of a failsafe option!

MAC Brave – This satin
shade is last year's Twig, if that makes sense. I bought it in Spring 2015 and it was the first nude-ish shade that I bought in a long
time. It's a dusky mauvey pink, a bit lighter than Twig. Super easy
to wear, and I'm probably going to break this out more again when
Spring properly arrives.

MAC Kinda Sexy –
Actually the first nude lipstick I ever bought. It's a peachy nude
with a matte finish. I love the look of this paired with a bit of
matte eyeshadow and a cat flick, it looks very 60ies that way. I feel
like this is a great option for everyone who wants to try a "classic
nude" colour that isn't a mauve, because it is pigmented enough
so that it doesn't wash you out completely. Definitely worth a
swatch!

MAC In Control – This
Prolongwear lipliner has one of the best lip formulas I have ever
come across. It glides on smoothly and then locks itself into the
lips – you can wear this all day without having to reapply it.
Granted, not everyone will like the feel of this on the lips, it's a
bit different than most lipsticks because at the end of the day, it
is incredibly dry. I don't mind it at all though – but I almost exclusively wear matte and retro matte lipsticks all year
round, so that's also something to be considered.

MAC Spice – One of the
most versatily shades in my collection! I actually really like
wearing this just on its own because of its staying power. It's
pretty much the matte 90ies nude that's been so en vogue for the past
year, so if that's what you're lusting after Spice is a very solid
choice!

The cool thing about all
of these lipsticks and lipliners is that you can layer all of them. I
love Kinda Sexy and Twig over Spice, for example. In Control I love
on it's own, but layered with the Sephora stain it's literally bullet
proof. Layering lip products is one of my favourite things while
doing my makeup right now – it gives you so many possibilites
without actually buying new products! Definitely worth a try if
you're stuck in a makeup rut! :)

Monday, 18 January 2016

I never was a neutral
lipstick kinda girl. Bright lipstick has always been my thing – and
still is – but I still always wanted to find a nude lipstick that
works for me. I've accomplished that mission in 2015 a few times now,
and there's a summary of all the nude(ish) lipsticks I've accumulated
in the past year coming up soon! Today it's all about one of my new
favourites, however: MAC Twig.